Chapter Three – Drill, Baby, Drill (Part 2 of 2)
Pages 153-164
AGIA and ACES (Alaska Gasline Inducement Act and Alaska’s Clear and Equitable Share)
I’m going to let this one lie, because you could basically write a book about it all on its own. It’s particular to Alaska, and it’s wonky. Good people fall on both sides of this issue. Some people I know think Palin was exactly right, and that this was the only thing she was ever right about. Others I know think that the gasline will never ever happen and Palin shot it in the foot.
Page 165
Attended lots of military events. Watched blue star moms change to gold star moms.
Went to Kuwait in 2007 (I think that’s when she got her first passport)
Page 166
Soldiers in Kuwait never complained. Visits with wounded.
Page 167
Her biggest argument with Track when he was a teenager was about whether he was going to play the hockey position he wanted to play, or whether he was going to play the position she wanted him to play. (Why is this an argument??) She thought that was pretty great.
Track was prone to injuries because he was a “grinder, a player known for workhouse toughness first, and finessing the puck second. He relished hitting the boards – and opponents. He drew a lot of penalties.” (Wow. That was one giant pile of hockey euphamisms for saying someone is a nasty player) Once a nice man came up to her and said he had played hockey against Track for a lot of years, and that Track had broken his hand. (A mom must be so proud.)
Page 168
But don’t feel too sorry for the kids that got the crap beat out of them by Track, because he actually hurt himself too, poor lad. He has a bum shoulder now.
She had to go to the ER, and Track was there and they wouldn’t give him water because he was a minor and if they had to do surgery he was supposed to have an empty stomach. She understood but was furious because an underage girl “could undergo a painful, invasive, and scary abortion and no parent even had to be notified.”
Page 169
Apparently she mentioned the abortion thing to the nurse who agreed with her, and she vowed then and there to change the parental notification law.
Track got tattoos to cover up his surgery scars. He got a Jesus fish and a map of the state of Alaska because he knew she couldn’t argue about him getting tattoos if those were the designs.
He left home his senior year to play hockey in Michigan. “He would call home in wonder about the diversity and the nice people and the heartland neighborhoods with American flags hung from doorposts in every town.” (Call home in wonder? But…but…I thought Alaska was a “microcosm” of the rest of the country. No?)
Page 170
Track hopes that kids from old America can truly appreciate this country and not take it for granted. His repeated injuries meant he had to “hang up the blades.” He was glad to miss out on her becoming governor because he hates the spotlight. He was still drawn to that feeling of brotherhood and saw his friends screwing up, and knew it wasn’t for him. So, just add together all that patriotism, love of conflict, desire not to get into trouble and stay away from the governor and – voila! He decided to join the military during his first week of college. (?)
Page 171
At a conference in New Orleans where nobody knew her, she bought a pregnancy test at Walgreens. She was pregnant. “Holy geez!” She was happy because she wanted a boy, and she wanted a “Starting Five” lineup. But she just knew her critics would say all kinds of mean things about her. She prayed about the situation.
Page 172
She “dreaded the comments from the Neanderthals who would think of this pregnancy as a distraction.” She thought about these less than ideal circumstances. Nobody knew she was pregnant and they’d never have to know if she got an abortion. She had a “sudden understanding of why many women feel pressured to make the “problem” go away.” But even though she knew what goes through a woman’s mind in this kind of situation, she was grateful to right-to-life groups that “affirm the value of the child.” Otherwise women who were tempted to continue the pregnancy under these circumstances might feel like they were the only ones that felt that way. Then they’d all just go along with what “society” wants them to do, and have an abortion.
She decided that having the baby was “the right choice,” and noted that it wouldn’t be the only time she had to make a choice about the pregnancy.
Page 173
She and Todd kept missing each other because of business trips and she told him weeks later. He was ecstatic. They decided not to tell anyone so they could have “sacred time.”
Page 174
She had had a second miscarriage between Willow and Piper. Her doctor “CBJ” was kind and caring. She had toughened up and took the second miscarriage better than the first.
She visited her doctor at 12 weeks. Was told that she was older and there were risks. She wasn’t worried.
Page 175
She had four healthy children so wasn’t worried. “Besides, my sister Heather already had a special needs son, who had autism and he was our family’s angel boy.” God knew what he was doing.
Got sonogram. Baby was alive. They found “boy parts.” “Relief blew through me like the Mat-Su Valley wind.” (Oh, good grief.) “God is so good! I thought. He knows what’s best.”
Baby’s neck was thick.
Page 176
God would never give her anything she couldn’t handle. She couldn’t handle a special needs child. God knew how busy she was. “Got to go-go-go.” Couldn’t imagine how she could handle it. Unles… God knew her better than she knew herself. But then she decided God wouldn’t do it to her.
Decided to get amniocentesis so she could be prepared in case. Went to genetecist alone. Snuck in the back door and used her maiden name.
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Finds out the baby will have Down Syndrome. Drives to Wasilla. Doesn’t cry. Her family always wonders why she never cries. She is stoic. She did not tell Bristol this, but she “chokes up all the time” at military events, when the Star Spangled Banner plays, and at new born babies. But she does this secretly when nobody can see. (Imagining her in a closet listening to the Star Spangled Banner with a box of Kleenex)
But she drove to Wasilla and her “eyes stayed dry.” Maybe there was a mistake. Is God listening?
Page 178
Got confirmation of extra chromosome. Found out it was a boy and thanked God. “For me, that was a glimmer of light and I let it warm me.” Didn’t know if she had enough love and compassion to raise a special needs child. (!) Wonders if you don’t have to be “wired differently” to deal with it. Almost 90% of DS babies are aborted. She again understood why women want to terminate this type of pregnancy. But she had a “seed of faith.”
Went home and told Todd. Finally cried. Told Todd it was a boy. Todd said, “See, Sarah? God knows what He’s doing. This is great!” Then she told him about the DS.
Page 179
Todd was happy and sad. Asked lots of questions. Said it would be OK. Wondered what kid would be like. Asked other parents of DS kids if they played sports.
Page 180
Todd was more accepting and optimistic than she was. She was still having a hard time with it so they didn’t tell the rest of the kids.
Went to Track’s graduation ceremony in Ft. Benning. Boot camp turns boys into men.
Page 181
Couldn’t spot him because they all look alike. “That’s the point,” someone said.
Remembered John Kerry’s comment in 2006 about if you go to college and work hard you don’t get stuck in Iraq. “What a loon, I though. What an elitist loon.” (You know… you ‘ve got all the time in the world to make edits and change things around. You’ve got many eyes on the draft of this book. And “elitist loon” actually made the final cut??)
Enlistees are smart. Track could have done anything else, but he chose to enlist. Thanks God for second-greatest generation.
Page 182
Target – Palin’s former mentor and then State Senate President Lyda Green.
She sent a letter saying she’d be away, because “after I was elected, the rules for governors’ travel seemed to change with no notice.” (Maybe that’s because no governor previously charged the state for the travel and lodging of their children all over creation)
She attributes the fact that people had a problem with these copious family state-paid travel expenses to the fact that she said she was going to be a “mama grizzly” for the state. So those darn lawmakers in Juneau didn’t want her to leave Juneau. “Ever.” (I am imagining readers in Juneau right now as they don’t know whether to laugh or just scrape their chins off the desk. She wasn’t there a lot.)
Schedules changed, people weren’t notified. Who was really in control of Juneau? The goodly gov, or the evil 69-year old entrenched politician who lived in the hotel that was the Sodom of Southeast Alaska?? I believe this is where the infamous “Where’s Sarah?” buttons first appeared on the scene in the legislature. She couldn’t be there when the legislature wanted her there. Was this the bellweather?
This was just silly…”let her be in control” Palin thought. (Riiiiight. Lyda Green, incidentally was the politician, and cancer survivor, that the conservative radio shock jocks Bob & Mark called a “bitch” and a “cancer” while they were on the air interviewing Palin, who just giggled.)
She didn’t bring her staff or security with her on the trip because she “just knew a double standard would apply.” And plus Lyda Green was enjoying all the attention from the media (projection perhaps?) Green rallied the media who “milked the drama.” She got grief for leaving the capital as the legislative session got underway but governors are supposed to “steer clear” of the capitol building during the legislative session otherwise people might think they were trying to interfere.
Page 184
They had to switch their schedule around so she could deliver the state of the state speech, and they made the graduation from boot camp but they missed the “family day” events.
They still hadn’t told the kids about the pregnancy but they dropped helpful hints like, “Sometimes life throws you a curve ball” to prepare them.
She wrote an announcement letter telling everyone about Trig’s DS and wrote it in the first person as God.
Page 185
The letter from God.
“I ‘ve heard your prayers that this baby will be happy and healthy, and I’ve answered them because I only want the best for you!” (?)
“Children are the most pecious and promising ingredient in this mixed-up world you live in down there on earth.”
“Some will think Trig should not be allowed to be born because they fear a Downs child won’t be considered “perfect” in your world.” (Fearing Death Panels already??)
Page 186
“Trig can’t wait to meet you. I’m giving you ONLY THE BEST! Love, Trig’s Creator, Your Heavenly Father”
People made fun of her for writing a letter in the voice of God.
Todd is a four-time Iron Dog snowmachine race champ.
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The Iron Dog is hard and long and cold.
People they know have died.
Page 188
Once Todd had an accident and flew off his machine and broke his arm.
He “soldiered on” and finished the last 400 miles of the race anyway.
Todd had another tea party with Laura Bush.
The Iditarod is also long and hard and cold.
Page 189
Alaska – Where Men are Men and Women Win the Iditarod (Another bumper sticker)
Iditarod musher Martin Buser campaigned for her and “appreciates America more than most people born and bred here.”
Lance Mackey won the race and got a call from the governor and took the phone not knowing the governor was a woman. “Oh, I fell in love with that musher and his lead dog Larry, right then and there.” (Huh? A) Why? and B) If she loves him why did she just share that embarrassing story with the nation?)
Page 190
My question from page 189 is answered.
A KTUU reporter (Bill McAllister her future Communications Director) asked her about the embarrassing interview. “Are you kidding?! More power to him! Good he’s not a politico – I like him even more now.”
(So… you have to be a “politico” to know who the governor is? And “more power to you” if you’re not paying attention? Those are the people the GOP really love! OK…that makes sense now.)
The next year when he won again, he didn’t forget her name because he named one of his dogs “Sarah.”
(NO. I won’t make a joke, and you can’t make me! >clamping hand on mouth<)
Page 191
She’s 7 months pregnant and “hadn’t put on a lot of weight” so she was able to conceal her pregnancy with scarves. Willow said she was “porking up” but she still didn’t say anything to the family.
She still hadn’t finished the letter from God, but they told a few friends and family she was pregnant, but not about the DS (I think). The kids were overjoyed.
Page 192
Finally decided to announce. Seafood reception in Juneau. She called reporters to her office and said she was having a baby in two months. They had no idea. And there was rejoicing.
Page 193
She and Todd flew to Dallas. Baby due in 5 weeks. She was due to deliver a keynote address at an oil and gas conference. At 4am she had a “strange sensation.” (water breaking) Didn’t want Todd to call her doctor because it was 1am and she just wanted to pray to God. But Todd called anyway.
It occurred to her that she loved the baby and “desperation for this baby overwhelmed her.” “Please God, protect him!” Losing the baby would be the worst thing in the world.
Told the doctor she absolutely didn’t want to cancel the speech and disappoint the people at the conference, including Gov. Rick Perry. She’d stay in touch with doctorand catch an earlier flight back to Alaska. They had plenty of time.
Spoke on the urgent need to tap conventional supplies and innovate on stabilizing renewable resources.
Governor Perry introduced her with humorous remarks about how they both loved people who cling to guns and religion.
She delivered the speech.
Page 195
The Wild Ride
Todd said, “Love this state, but we can’t have a fish picker born in Texas.” (That was nice of them to add the “love this state” part. It’ll make the book signing in Dallas less awkward.)
On the plane they talked about the fact that the letter from God had not been sent yet and that nobody was prepared, not even the other kids. They wondered if they had handled it properly. They prayed to God to make everyone else ready because they hadn’t.
“Many hours and two plane flights later” Trig was born. (Flight from Dallas bypassing hospitals, to Seattle, stop in Seattle (bypassing hospitals), flight from Seattle to Anchorage (bypassing hospitals), Drive from Anchorage 45 minutes north to hospital. What happened to “Please God, protect him.” and “losing the baby would be the worst thing in the world?”)
Todd and daughters were nearby for the birth. (Hey, I thought Chuck Heath “saw him pop out, dumbass.”)
She was glad that God put her into labor early so she got to see the baby sooner.
Page 196-199
Got an email from an oil worker that said “Go to hell, but resign first.” (Hmm.)
More oil wonky stuff about freeing up leases on Pt.Thompson.
She had a fine working relationship with Democrats. Democrats were amazed she would work with them.
The press was decent and fair her first years in office, but then that last year they got really mean all of a sudden.
Exxon Mobil people from Australia gave her a jar of Vegemite. They weren’t trying to thank her, they were trying to kill her. (It’s OK, I bet they won’t read the book)
Page 201
Targets – Walt Monegan and Hollis French
It’s all about fiscal conservatism. Walt Monegan (Commissioner of Public Safety that she fired for not axing Mike Wooten) announced his funding requests for his department in public, and wanted more money. (To deal with Alaskan issues like alcohol and substance abuse, domestic abuse, sexual assault and violent crime. We are first in the nation for several of these.) How dare he request this in public? He was trying to get what he wanted using an old political trick, to try to shame the state into dealing with these problems instead of letting them sock the money away somewhere and let the governor get “red pen” fiscal conservative credit while people in her own state were literally dying. What a jerk. What insubordination! She was going to be fiscally conservative, and Alaskans be damned.
And all of this was on the wish list of unions and the Democrat legislator Hollis “Gunny” French. He got the nickname because he liked to think he listed himself as having one year of military service when really it was only attending a military course in college. And anyway he was a “ringleader” in the ethics probe that found her guilty of abusing her position as governor.
Some union members and Democrat friends were offended when I later branded Monegan’s behavior ‘insubordinate.’ Is there a better term for it? As I write this, I’m thumbing through a thesaurus….still looking….still looking. Nope. Seems like insubordination to me. I had the final say on the budget. It was my responsibility to make it efficient.
(Oh, where to begin… First you don’t have a “Democrat” friend. Just like I don’t have a “Rethuglican” friend. If they are your friend, you don’t insult them in the descriptor. Second, I don’t think someone who is actually trying to help people to the best of his ability, in the face of desperate misery, with what resources he has available to him is insubordinate. I think that person is humane, and is more concerned with people than politics. I think that a certain governor was feeling a little bit threatened, and would rather slash a budget that be humane to her people. I think she’s no protective mama grizzly. I think she has more than a helping of selfish pride. I’m sure there’s some Bible quote for that. And I really really want to go back and make that joke about the dog from page 190 now, where I had to clamp my hand over my mouth. There’s got to be another word for that. As I write this, I’m thumbing through a thesaurus …. still looking … still looking. Oh, I found it!)
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Oh, she’s not finished with Walt Monegan yet. If he wanted to dictate a budget so bad, then he should run for office. He did run for mayor and didn’t do very well. Isn’t pouring salt in wounds fun?
But wait there’s more. She was “surprised” that he went to Washington D.C. to lobby for earmarks. SHE on the other hand doesn’t want any help from the federal government, especially for stupid stuff like funding to deal with sexual assault problems. You can take your money and shove it, Washington. We’d rather be #1 in the country for sexual assault than take any help from you.
Then the evil DemocrAT lawmakers started telling lies about the fact that Monegan got fired because the governor’s office pressured him repeatedly to fire Mike Wooten and he wouldn’t do it.
My head hurts.
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Page 204
She did an interview and photo shoot for Vogue. All she wanted to talk about was national security and energy independence because “fashion trends” didn’t interest her. (Ha!) For some reason the Vogue writer didn’t want to hear about oil and gas.
Page 205
Gas line. Got a bid from China. Didn’t want to deal with communitsts, but their application was incomplete anyway, and rejected. But there was Trans-Canada! Hooray! She could almost see the tape across the finish line then! (Looking through binoculars….don’t see tape)
Page 206
Name drops a lot of media outlets and people she talked to like… Glenn Beck.
Talked to them about ANWR.
Page 207
She was interviewed about the gasline and ANWR by reporters from the Wall Street Journal, Time, the Associated Press, Investor’s Business Daily and Forbes. “Perhaps that’s why I was so shocked during the VP campaign when Katie Couric wondered which papers and magazines I read.” (Because you’re a regular reader of any outlet that interviews you? You still haven’t answered the question. WHAT DO YOU READ?!)
“Maybe I should have asked her what she reads. She didn’t sound very informed on our energy issues.” (Yeahhh….what do YOU read Kaaatie, you little Miss Perky smarty pants? Ohhhh, the obsession.)
Gloats about kicking off the pipeline. (Where IS that dang thing?)
Page 207
Finds out Bristol is pregnant. She was devastated. “It wasn’t the morality of the situation – what was done was done.” It was that her future would change in an instant. They prayed. God would make it OK.
Page 208
Agonizing comparison of her own tenure in office to fireweed blooming.
(Heading for a glass of wine)
ack!
Ok, I’ll join you for that glass and offer this toast “You are a stronger person than I. You took a big one for the team” Salute!
She is so full of merry moosesh:t. Like she even had that wild ride. http://m.cnn.com/cnn/ne/ent/detail/401596;jsessionid=7D07817AD4AD5357B9A75EFF0376FB3B.live7i
I wish people would stop covering up for her. I’ll always thank Syrin for her comments on that wizbang blog I first saw that led me here (when I went back online to show a Poli Sci major colleague about how $P got her two older kids out of her way by farming the first born to MI and B went away for 5 months with “mono.”)
Thank you for all you’ve done AKM.
OMG. AKM-you poor thing. Everytime she (SP) opens her mouth (or wields her imaginary pen) it is like a porcupine in a balloon factory. Me, me , me, it’s all about me!!! I want to shake the hand of the oilfield worker that sent her the e-mail.
I know a little something about having an abortion. It was neither painful, nor scarey. The situation was nothing like having shoulder surgery for a hockey injury however. I was just very thankful to a very kind doctor and the fact that it was legal and safe.
I am soooooo tired of her use of Trig. There are many DS babies out there with very loving families who take very good care of them and are rewarded by perhaps the most loving children in the world. However, taking care of a special needs child requires a parent who puts her children first and always first. This is NOT the SP style. And the question “can they still play sports????” Ever heard of Special Olympics??? I give them money every year. How about you Scarah???
Which brings me to my final rant: I have yet to hear about SP doing anything for anyone else besides herself. What charities does she give to? What work has she ever done that hasn’t been for a paycheck? (Unless she got caught doing something unethical and had to give to charity to cover it up). My husband was asked in a college class the other day what his hobbies were. The young kids in the class were all about “snowmachining, fishing, hunting, etc”. My husband responded “philanthropy”. After he defined it for the professor and 90% of the people in the class (sad), he said they asked him if he was “religious”. Bwahahahaha was my response at this point in the story. He said “No, I just consider it the right thing to do”. Whay can’t people get that???
I know the musher that she speaks of personally. Not a political guy. Never finished high school. Don’t know about the dog named Sarah but do know that he had a whole litter named after brands of beer and another with names like “Nasty” so go figure…
Back to reality-somone got killed working on the North Slope today–oh so glad it wasn’t my husband–oh so sad for his family. Just puttin’ things in perspective.
We all owe you big time. Fantastic commentary. Your wit makes her lack of it bearable.
Did you see Cobert’s show tonight? They sent one of their “reporters” to a NYC bookstore. The clerk said they’d ordered eight copies of Sarah’s tome, but expected to have them all still there next week. Such a nice comparison to the frenzied scenes on CNN and MSNBS where folks had camped out to get into the book signings.
Of course, geographic and socioeconomic factors might have had something to do with it — or maybe people with limited IQs simply in NYC can’t find their bookstores. Who knows for sure. Just that the folks that the real news people interviewed who were salivating had (1) limited vocabularies, and (2) almost a sexual passion for Palin. She sure knows her target audience: they love their dumb tarts.
Thanks AKM for your reading this rogue going delusional fantasy tour of your XGINO for us. Appreciate your effort, hang in there.
Eyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh, I’m going to kill myself – no more Sarah; damn it hurts (but yes I hope she has hung herself, again)
The UC Board of Regents voted today to raise tuition in the UC System by 32% while staff cuts continue (UC Berkeley Libraries are supposed to shed 100 positions by next year – nearly a 50% reduction in staff). Sound familiar, put up with it and UAA, UAF, and the rest of Alaska’s system of higher education might be asking students to put a much bigger chunk of the bill.
http://www.ptarmigannest.net/?p=1907
Have a NICE DAY.
I had my water break with our first child. As did Ann Strongheart’s doctor with Sweet GG’s birth, our OB/GYN told us to hie my amnio-leaking body to the hospital…lickity-split and with no dilly-dallying. When the water breaks well before the onset of active, hard labor, the danger of infection and/or a ‘dry birth’ is very real and very serious. Very serious.
For as much as SP goes on and on about the ‘gift’ of her youngest, her actions –from the moment she confirmed the pregnancy with the pee-stick, to her not telling Toad until how many weeks?, to them not telling their children/family for months (and even then not telling them about the DS), to traveling hours and hours after her water broke– speak volumes otherwise.
I’m sure a shrink would have a hay-day with her; she’s sure to end up a case study for many year’s-worth of investigation by psych students who’re delving into the mysteries of the delusions and denials to which some human minds are capable of retreating without a single qualm. Or guilt. Or ties to reality. beth.
Wow, You guys (Alaskan Blogger’s) have really got to thank Sarah for one thing–we would likely not know you exist without her. God Bless all of you for putting out the lights on that dim bulb. You all are really funny in a wholesome way. Keep up the good work.
God bless you AKM- my head hurts reading your recap………. Thanks for taking one for the team. If ever in Juneau I have a glass of wine with your name on it.
Where was the part on pg 170 where he (Track) vandalized the school buses and was given the choice of incarceration or the military?
Am I the only one that doesn’t think that Sarah gave birth to Trig?
I’m worn out already. And grateful that you are throwing yourself on the sword for us…
I know, I know…I had to take a break from reading it…too much ‘dithering’. if track had a bum shoulder (now) then why oh why did the military accept him? …that just doesn’t sound right to me. is this another elaboration to make the fiction more interesting?
good job, AKM…let’s keep calling her out
Thanks for summing up this Sarahsh*t which passes for her interpretation of reality. I was not going to give one red, white and blue American cent for her fabricated stories. I appreciate the fat that i don’t live near any stores and do not have to pass by copies of her book or those foolish folks who wait in long lines to buy a copy or droll over them for her autograph. What a bunch of palblum. (sp)
The photo of her coming off the bus on book tour lugging around her grandson, Trig, once again using him as a political prop was all I had to see to know he isn’t being taken care of at home, then or earlier. No eye glasses or hearing aides as he needs. Nor having his full time maternal parent he depends on who is home in Alaska with bro, Tripp. Guess it is okay for him to miss any special development therapy he may or may not receive in Wasilla. Just like it was okay to drag Piper and Willow out of school for weeks and more during campaign, and while Governor as well.
DS parents, speak out. Shame.
I have to ditto ks_sunflower’s “We all owe you big time. Fantastic commentary. Your wit makes her lack of it bearable.”
And an eye-rollery LOL @ the categories . . … .
I have only been able to hear about 6 minutes of Palin on TV – just heard a high pitched whiney noise and had to change channels.
AKM: You are my hero!!! Thanks for reading it for me!!! It would drive me crazy(er) if I actually read the book.
I am ready for the next chapter review.
I think you might be ready for shots after this next chapter though.
Great Job!
beth says: …to traveling hours and hours after her water broke– speak volumes…
can’t criminal charges be brought up against her on Trig’s behalf…seems like abortion was a fleeting thought (not for her of course-just as an understanding of those OTHER women), but outright killing him at full term was ok!?!!?
Oh, so that’s where DS and autism come from, GOD. Gotta love that God, the one who makes babies with DS, gives 3 year olds cancer, kills mommies in accidents, all so we can be more faithful and closer to our sadistic God. Warms the heart, huh? Did God ever answer that sports question? Because frankly, besides from getting a peemie from God (’cause you surely wouldn’t wanna have to wait for a full term baby, way too unmavericky), is getting a kid who can toss a ball and bat a puck around. Afterall, that’s what Jesus was all about. Sports! Amen!
And, yes, I remember my teen going off to, well anywhere, and calling home to tell me of the many flags (or lack there of) in the neighborshoods she saw. These patriotic kids are just amazing. Sadly, their unpatriotic mom encouraged them to get educated, rather than enlist, because -heathen that I am, I prefer my kids educated, safe and alive.
AKM : This woman really has a real mental problem.
God help America if she ever get near that Oval Office.
I cannot believe some of the things I am reading.
Alaska she is one SICK puppy.
She will crash and burn. I hope that happens before she does irrpressible
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The movie “Election” with Reese Witherspoon was released in 1999. This movie is likely where Sarah learned everything she knows about politics, elections, and governing.
AKM is doing us all a great service in reading Palin’s loosely assembled diatribes. I knew this was going to be a worthless use of recycled paper pulp, but never imagined it would be as bad as it is.
Most of us would never have published, this without a lot of editing. Just too embarrassing and childish. However, Sarah is the Queen and champion of ignorance. Proud to be ignorant, turned on it’s head and spun as a virtue. Given her faith-based supporters, that believe in everything Sarah, it doesn’t matter how clueless, mean-spirited, and childish she proves herself to be, which she clearly does in her book. She will surely turn legitimate and sound criticism into victimization to rally her base.
She was ignorant, before ignorant was cool. As Gov she promoted mining, drilling, hunting, and making babies. Not much as a future for a nation in the 21st Century.
It is easy to discern her role as Gov, as she understood it to be, as that of a tin-cup dictator. As she treats the State legislature with pure disdain. Although, she pretends to have final word on the budget, the legislators have to approve it, also, too.
She needs to convince her supporters that she is guided by divine intervention, because she is an expert in nothing and intolerant of any advisers and varying opinions from knowledgeable sources. Let’s just label this ignorance. It is always a fool who pretends to be the know-it-all. The decider, if you will.
OK, this is really nit-picky, but she keeps repeating it over & over & it really irritates me. Keeps talking about the neanderthals going to attack her if they found out she was pregnant. I didn’t know neanderthals were in the Garden of Eden. How did they get from there to here? Add fake creationist to her growing list of false beliefs. I’d wonder why none of her fellow rebiblican creationists have picked up on that, but they’re as ignorant as she is.
Thanks so much AKM. You’re brilliant!
Ack! Why won’t they make it stop? It makes my brain hurt reading the rantings of that woman. Thank you AKM, you have done a great service, now I have to go and take some Tylenol. Massive headache and nausea.
So little Sarah had no one to tell her how warped she was going to sound if she “wrote” this book. It’s hard to believe this isn’t just about the money she’ll get from the advance and the book. Saying she’s interested in running helps sell books. But there is no way she could be disciplined enough to endure the grind necessary even to run for the nomination. She ran for VP for 2 whole months. So she could launch an independent run, I suppose. The Rupugs will do everything possible to keep that from happening – except, perhaps, giving her the nomination?
So Christians do believe God will make it okay, but not necessarily in the here and now. An old theology professor told us that “Christians should be proximal pessimists and ultimate optimists.” The permutations necessary to think that God will protect me because I’m a Christian, and therefore all those other poor saps out there who have bad things happen to them must really not be Christians – are painfully naive and, in fact, basically unfaithful in some way. The book of Job had quite a bit to say about this view of God.
AKM – Thank goodness for your sense of humor and wit! If I had to read her real words, I’d be booking a psychiatric appointment about now. Great job!
If anyone missed Jon Stuart last night, try to catch it on the web – very funny! Both he and Colbert dissed Palin quite well. As KS Sunflower mentioned, Colbert was hilarious. I especially loved the segment of the reporter and the kids.
Geoff Dunn has another piece up and this one deals with Andree McLeod and Palin’s attempts to trash her:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-dunn/palins-former-ally-calls_b_363316.html
Bob Cesca also has another one up:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/famous-for-being-famous-t_b_362934.html
Colbert & Stewart both covered her book well. Colbert smacked her down, while Stewart just made fun of her, while explaining her killing and good looks are his favorite parts -it’s the emptyness that makes his hate her! Worth a watch.
Wow – after just getting through your synopsis, I need a glass of wine as well. Too bad I’m on the slope with no alcohol to be found! Anyway, I thought people here may be interested to read Dan Fagan’s take on Palin’s book on the AK Standard blog. It’s always heartening to see that some conservatives “get it”.
http://www.thealaskastandard.com/content/sarah-palin-dark-soul
Re: Lovemydogs – it is really sad about the fatality on the slope today. There have been several serious accidents up here lately & this will be the 2nd fatality since Aug. Certainly not typical but makes you realize what’s truly important.
Thanks for the rogue cliff notes….
I know this is not exactly about the book, but I am confused about something.
The pic of her on Newsweek in shorts was a pic she did for a sports mag right????
If she did not consider it tacky then, why think it tacky now????
She looks like a pinup model selling anything other then sports, so what does she think the reaction would be when men or even women see that pic even on a sports mag.
Wait. She and Rick Perry joked about people clinging to guns and money. When did Obama say that? Maybe I’m wrong, but wasn’t it months later???
oops, I’m wrong. was the same week. and guns and religion. nevermind.
Speaking of the “long” lines at one of her book signings that was shown last night on Countdown, did anyone notice the lack of “color” in those lines ?
Kind of like all the McCain rallies – strictly “lily-white”.
Wonder how many of them were brought in by bus, and paid to sit in line for the cameras ?
Wow! Whew! And there is so much to comment on one comment won’t do! Now, is it the abreviated version that makes me wonder if they kept Trig because he was a boy? If it was a girl with DS would the decision have been the same?
And all they thought of was “will he be able to play sports?” Huh?
It’s nice that each kid gets their own mini-chapter but what you say she says about Track doesn’t sound too flattering – to us! Is she really proud of his brutal side? Guess it makes him more of a he-man! Who plays sports!
Why did I never understand that Todd was with her during that fateful and courageous flight back from Dallas to Alaska?
And her writing a “Letter from God”? Wow! That takes chutzpah, yeah baby! But for someone so religious, this doesn’t seem a bit sacrilege to her?
Thanks for the shortened version but gee you are making me want to read the book now. Sounds way too amazing!
Oh no! Quitty’s already working on her sequels:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389×7046254
Among all the mess that this book is, it makes me sad that they all seemed so happy that Trig would be a boy. Were they NOT happy when they found out about their daughters? Palin makes sure everyone knows that Trig’s down syndrome isn’t an issue for the family, but reinforces that gender of a child is.
That’s just plain sad. Girls have value, too.
Love the children in Jon Stewart’s skit. After hours of coverage by tv talking-heads, political pundits, and self-proclaimed experts…. the children call the book, boorring! One child would rather jump in a Volcano than have any more of the book read to him. Another would prefer jumping into pool full of man-eating sharks. Another suggests suicide and the last one curls up into a fetal position and falls asleep.
I guess the 5% of the population dumb enough to buy the “wild ride” story are dumb enough to love Sarah. I think that summarizes the book, and Sarah.
Here’s the link for Jon Stewart and Jon Oliver last night
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/19/jon-stewart-explains-to-c_n_363387.html
Ebay report: after day 1 of the tour, there are 53 signed copies of Going Rouge on Ebay, most in “leather box”. Prices range from $299 (signed on front cover??) at Oprah taping) down to $49.
Page 179
Asked other parents of DS kids if they played sports.
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So, during her SUPER SECRET pregnancy she was out polling other parents about the extracuricular activities of their special needs kids and NO ONE thought that was odd?
A question has come to mind — If Track has a ‘bum shoulder’, he was able to still enlist?
AKM’s page 168 summary – That’s one (bleep) of a stretch for comparison.
She had to go to ER as ‘he couldn’t have water because he was a minor’ (it truly being for need of empty stomach if surgery needed).
She finds her ‘window’ to supposedly vocalize to compare it to a teenage girl “could undergo a painful, invasive, and scary abortion and no parent even had to be notified”.
She has compared the abortion to a drink of water.
Much the same as she has done in the Walters interview – extremely condescending that it “would be the easy way out” as if women make the choice of an abortion the same way they would make a decision of say putting the toilet tissue in the washroom with it over or under.
I know that comparison came to me in that the only thing she deserves is to be flushed!
There being so much info flying around, I believe it was only a few days ago that someone had put a link up for an interview by the ghostwriter Vincent of Prejean on her book. Yes I’m aware of all the info on Vincent, but I’m shaking my head that she’s not appeared to have much input in the writing or the appearance of questioning Palin as this ‘water’ comparison makes no sense. The interview with Prejean, the questions appeared to me to be quite leading. Vincent’s questions were like a dialogue containing the answer so that it wasn’t taxing on Prejean’s brain.
It’s been noted that Vincent got no credit on the cover. May have been her choice after the project. An attempt to crawl into the background instead of being associated with it. One day the truth may fall out from somewhere. May be nothing and it was contracted this way.
Just stopping by to drop a link to some Palinites arguing with commenters about how great she is. It’s really quite a read:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-11-18/sarah-drops-the-act/?cid=hp:beastoriginalsL1
So I guess the rumor I heard that Track had to join the Army or go to jail was not true.
Not that any mother would want to write that in a book. But, the lies, oh the lies this women tells.
I just was listening to NPR and the BBC news about palin’s book signing.
All those poor people were gushing about how honest she was, how she was pro life, how she tells it like it is, that she is exactly what we need for a President.
And all I can think of, if she denigrates people who she thinks have wronged her, can you image her as president, having to deal with countries like China?
Notice how she does not mind a communist country when they PAY her to speak? How would she deal with a Congress? Press?
And the lies…. What kind of lies would she tell if she was president? GW lied us into a war.
Would sarah lie us into Armageddon?
I’m not reading this and I’m not sure I could manage it. I don’t know how you are going to scrub your brain after you read this drivel, AKM. I can send you some TUMS if you need them.
I don’t believe Track was forced by a juvenile court judge to join the Army. You are telling me that he ruled that 1 year and 9 months after the incident (Nov 2005) you must join the Army or go to jail. Track was 16, 2 boys were 17 and one 18. The 18 yr. old had a different judge. (Regular court). He was sentenced to community service at the Wasilla Bible Church, a fine and probation. The 16 yr old (Track) was also accused of stealing a bottle of vodka from a liquor store. Liquor stores have security cameras. SOMEHOW the police connected the 2 incidents. The 18 yr. old was sentenced Feb 2006 (Sarah was running for Gov.) That same month the Wasilla high hockey team won the regional championship. I saw a team picture, full hockey gear, holding their trophy’s. Track is not in the pic! Where was he? In the restroom?Levi’s in it. His dark hair has blonde highlights put in it. In March of 2006, one of Tracks buddies is asked on Myspace “Track is MIA?” Well he was back by early May because he went to the Wasilla Prom. Saw preprom pics taken at the Palin house. Bristol went too. 9nth grade. Went with a Senior. I have a suspicion that Track went to rehab. Came back and didn’t straighten up his act. Sent him to MI 6 weeks before the election for Gov? Really? WTF? And a year later he joined the army.
Am I naive to think that there might be a few true Christians out there who read her book and realize how un-Christian this nut case is? She makes no effort to hide her visciousness and nastiness; surely this would be a turn-off to some. I wonder if there’s a website out there for former Palin-ites who have seen the light? That would be really interesting to see, and to read their stories. BTW, I asked on the open thread if AKM has to perform a cleansing ritual after reading this trash. Just reading the “cliff notes” makes me want to scratch my eyes out.
20 Kat Says:
November 19th, 2009 at 3:16 AM
“Keeps talking about the neanderthals going to attack her if they found out she was pregnant.”
But she doesn’t believe in evolution so she can’t believe in Neanderthals.
According to her that can not have existed.
Plus she doesn’t explain why she would be attacked for being pregnant.
After all libruls, are – well liberal. Its the conservatives that want women to stay home and have babies.
My blood pressure went up with the whole letter written from God thing. I could tell as I heard the blood rushing in my ears. Imagine that, and I am one of those Independent (Undeclared) voters that the Rupublican party is trying to court. They need to step away from Sarah Palin.
awww AKM..You make me laugh..Great way to start my day..Have a good one..
she’s a complainer ..
she’s a whiner..
also, too she lies…
Did it ever occur to her that the reason, the only argument she ever had with her teenaged son was about hockey, was because she didn’t have a clue about who he was or what was going on in his life?
Why all the aggression Track, hmmmm??
Got to hand it to Track however, he has managed (so far) to stay above the fray.
Here’s what’s striking me… You’d think, in 400+ pages of memoirs, written (at least in theory) to support her argument that she’d make a nifty President some day… You’d think she’d mention actually GOVERNING, wouldn’t you? Something with real accomplishments she can be proud of… Something showing experience at something other than campaigning?
Is it just me?
Who wants to bet that 90% of the people who bought her book won’t actually read it. I bet they will skim it, but my Gawd it’s boring.
Funny how she doesn’t talk about how wonderful her new baby is or how much joy he brings her family. Baby pops out and nothing. My baby was my world when she came. The fact that the child just HAD to be a boy is just sick. I wonder what her girls think when they hear stuff like ‘ They found “boy parts” relief blew through me like the Mat-su Vally wind. Would she not be happy with another girl? She makes me sick!
“Some will think Trig should not be allowed to be born because they fear a Downs child won’t be considered “perfect” in your world.”
This is specious. NO ONE thinks DS kids should not be ALLOWED to be born.
Some people choose to end their own pregnancies. Some people don’t. NO ONE tries to force other people to end their own pregnancies.
This pre-emptive victimization of hers is peculiar. I’m almost wondering whether she had a family dispute about this, and she’s projecting what some family member said to her onto the rest of the world. Or maybe someone (Todd?) accused HER of this, and prevailed in the argument.
She finds her ‘window’ to supposedly vocalize to compare it to a teenage girl “could undergo a painful, invasive, and scary abortion and no parent even had to be notified”.
And the only reason a teenage girl would be doing this, would be because SHE WANTS TO.
Sarah’s making it sound like people are kidnapping pregnant teenagers off the street and forcing them to have an abortion.
She understood but was furious because an underage girl “could undergo a painful, invasive, and scary abortion and no parent even had to be notified.”
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Ummm. Pure projection. How would she know that it is painful and/or scary? There are a lot of women who make this choice and are relieved due to their circumstances.
Palin herself (from Oprah’s interview) said that she has reminded Bristol that she is lucky to have such an extensive support system that other people don’t have. What about the women who don’t have such a support system? Why can’t they decide for themselves? Or are the victims of Incest?
love it!!!!
except, you are spelling democrAT wrong……… it’s democ-RAT
and Bea, please, please tell me you are joking about the sequel!?!?!?
mmm…. I wonder how many other times she’s used her maiden name while doing something she wanted to hide…
Then they’d all just go along with what “society” wants them to do, and have an abortion.
She decided that having the baby was “the right choice,”
ACKK! Again… “Society” doesn’t want you to abort your baby or any baby, Ms. Palin. “Society” doesn’t care. “Society” (At least, the “intellectual elite”) wants you to have the ability to make a choice for yourself. A “choice” that you apparently made for yourself.
If you had your way, your “society” would force every woman to be an incubator no matter what her extenuating situation.
This woman, who has benefitted from every advantage that has been gained by the feminists that have gone before and had fought so hard for, seeks to
prevent others from having the same opportunities that she has had. Palin should be empowering women with knowledge about how to reduce unwanted and unplanned pregnancies which in turn would reduce the number of abortions that she likes to rail against.
Interesting that footage of the lines of book-purchasers in Grand Rapids shows no one cracking a spine of The Book during their hours of waiting. Also that they seem mostly to have bought just the one book – no other biography or fiction or even cookbook caught their eye whilst in the store? Contrast with the many thorough line-by-line exegeses (AKM’s the most entertaining!) from reviewers who read critically and often.
@moseyon says: God help America if she ever get near that Oval Office
————BEFORE that happens (God Forbid!!!) is when our yellow boots need to hit the ground running…get out there door to door, do whatever is in your power to prevent this stupid woman from a religious take-over! We would be no better off than any of those middle eastern, dictator-run places, if she were in ‘our’ Oval Office.
@Paula, Wolf Pack, & the norwegian blue………..Jon always seems to hit the nail on the head of politics. I LMAO, especially the “AK shooty pretty NOTHING peel the onion” bit…so true, so true. I tivo’d it and play’d it several times already. He is amazing!
Just heard that Oprah’s number’s were 8.7 mill. Highest in 2 years.
We won’t hear the end of that now too.
no wonder palin’s mental state is frayed and damaged…she holds on to grudges going way back and let’s it fester and eat at her, while she plays it over and over in her mind…wow…somebody that cares anything about her should get her some real American mental therapy…in her case, maybe psychoanalysis. when she ‘gets out’, she’ll have wrinkles… so the GOP can move on to someone else that tickles their ivories.
No surprise as you ad all the palin supporters that don’t watch Oprah and did this time it would naturally go up.The same can be said of any non faux station she goes on.Hey maybe Levi knows why Track was MIA!!!
Far be it from me to squint a critical eye in the direction of another woman’s birth experience, but I am still having trouble with the whole “not telling anyone I work with or the family about the pregnancy, secretly hoping that something will happen to this baby so that I don’t have to tell them, meanwhile choosing to selfishly travel within 5 WEEKS! of the due date to a state many hours away by plane and then having a “strange sensation” (water breaking) that I probably should have known what it was because I’ve had 4 children before this, speaking at the conference anyway because disappointing the people of Texas at the conference was more important than going to the hospital and making sure that I was having a healthy baby, not to mention what if my water really broke on the stage in the middle of my speech, and then choosing to travel back to Alaska to give birth while in labor after my water broke” part of her story.
Yeah. Having trouble with all of that. Questioning Palin’s decision making ability at this point with that story. You betcha.
Has anyone noticed how easily Ms. Palin is led by other people? As she was led in the Lyda Green interview and the fake Sarkozy interview. Led into cheesecake poses for the runners magazine. Led by the McCain campaign to buy a new wardrobe. Of course by allowing everyone else to decide things for her, she gets to blame them when things go wrong.
meede Says:
November 19th, 2009 at 8:45 AM
Just heard that Oprah’s number’s were 8.7 mill. Highest in 2 years.
We won’t hear the end of that now too.
Train wrecks and car crashes have high viewer numbers as well.
Found a site with various quotes and answers to questions including the sources. I was searching for something and got sidetracked reading this page. Now I forgot what I was searching for!! Some of them are Palin’s, others include Anne Kilkenny and others from books, papers, magazines. Interesting seeing them collected together now with the book jumping all over the place.
Found this quote re her tongue for which I have not yet stopped laughing!
Underestimating Sarah always proved to be a big mistake
“One of her strengths is being able to hold her tongue when she’s been unfairly attacked,” said [Sarah's brother] Chuck Jr. “By staying true to her beliefs, things always seem to fall into place for her.”
Source: Hockey Mom, by Kaylene Johnson Sep 9, 2008
Before selection, questioned role of vice president
When first approached by the McCain campaign, Palin seemed a little dubious about the job herself. She wasn’t sure she wanted it, she said in a television interview, “until somebody answers for me what it is exactly that the vice president does every day.” (Hmm, thought she didn’t blink)
Source: News Journal Online, “Fresh Talk”, by Pamela Hasterok Sep 1, 2008
Studied journalism; ran for office to make a difference
Q: What got you involved in politics?
A: I studied journalism in college and always had an interest in the newsroom, which was of course so often focused on politics and government
(In college and focused on politics and government . Really. Guess that old saying “practice makes perfect” failed – was too big of a reach for her! Political policies, Political history? What you read? Supreme Court cases? What the job of the VP is?)
Source: Q&A with Time Magazine’s Jay Newton Small Aug 14, 2008
http://www.ontheissues.org/Governor/Sarah_Palin_Principles_+_Values.htm
Is there any evidence that the AK legislature would have given her a hard time if she had announced her pregnancy like a normal person? Or, in SP style, is she attributing drama where there was none?
I am starting to feel really sorry for you. I can barely read the summary. It’s a little like when someone brings a whole album of baby pictures to work & 95% of it is not true. I’ve had to take a little Palin break. All those interviews & now the smug media starting to talk about Palin/Beck in 2102. I can’t bare the thought & have not turned on CNN or MSNBC since. Do they have no sense of their responsibility? You keep hearing these insane speculations, just think Obama is in China, he’s trying to get health care reform passed, he’s doing a myraid of things for this country & this stupid idiot is yapping about herself & “who done her wrong” & on & on. It would be real nice if you one of these folks with an ounce of integrity would mention that she does not have the intelligence or the qualifications to be president.
I can’t believe this woman! She chooses to risk her unborn child’s life because a) she doesn’t want to disappoint the Texas governor, and b) she wants to have her baby in Alaska. After having four children, she would have to know that when your water breaks, it’s showtime and you drop everything to head for the nearest hospital.
Giving birth is always a perfectly good reason for missing any event you have scheduled. And the state where it happens is pretty meaningless, when faced with the possibility of a stillborn child.
And people still think she can run the country?
I wouldn’t get worried about the media attention or Oprah’s viewership numbers being an indication of anything.
In this age of the Reality TV show, Palin is the ultimate Reality TV episode. That is it, plain and simple.
Willow points out, not showing at 7 months pregnant and three weeks later gives birth. Hmmm, that is strange. Did Sarah go into such detail about her other births, or just this one?
meede Says: @ 34: (November 19th, 2009 at 6:45 AM)
She has compared the abortion to a drink of water.
Much the same as she has done in the Walters interview – extremely condescending that it “would be the easy way out” as if women make the choice of an abortion the same way they would make a decision of say putting the toilet tissue in the washroom with it over or under.
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Or with even less thought than it takes to decide “over or under” on the toilet paper. Something along the lines of a woman thinking to herself: “The meeting got early and lunch reservations aren’t until noon – that’s two hours from now. Hmmm, I could get a mani and a pedi at that new place. Oh, shoot, I left the $10-off coupon in my other purse. Hey, I know — since I’m aready out this way, why don’t I just pop in to the Doc’s and have an abortion… yeah, that’s what I’ll do. And I’m definitely ordering the ‘Mediterranean Seafood Platter’ for lunch today; only question is: Will l have enough room left for dessert? The Chocolate Bombe and the Strawberry Pie are both so yummy! It’s hard to choose between them. Maybe I should really go wild and try the Caramel Cheesecake, today – I’ve heard that’s really good. Oh, so many decisions to make…” beth.
AKM is half way through the book! Thank you so much for doing this for us!! Palin sure is back-stabbing a lot of Alaskans. Her “followers” think she is setting the facts straight. That she is a breath of fresh air. I guess, if you didn’t know anything about her, you would think she is being honest, by reading all the folksy personal stuff, that reads like fiction.
Judy5cents Says:
November 19th, 2009 at 9:25 AM
Giving birth is always a perfectly good reason for missing any event you have scheduled. And the state where it happens is pretty meaningless, when faced with the possibility of a stillborn child.
Perhaps that was the ultimate intent? (Perhaps that is a cruel assessment, but one has to wonder.)
She didn’t even bother telling her children that their new sibling would be a special needs baby so that they could learn about the baby’s condition and be prepared together. Prayer is good, but it has nothing on education and preparation. Didn’t want to call the doctor. But she prayed about it. I wonder what her prayers really were?
If we had anything to do with it here there won’t be a sequel,
Bay Area not maverick enough to read Palin book
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/19/DDHJ1AMAC3.DTL
I wonder how well it’s really selling elsewhere ?
This book is boot camp for one’s mind. Probably a strengthening tool to help us cope with our own daily woes. This Sarah book could be a military boot camp psychological training for soldiers. If one can read it without banging head, one is ready for anything.
A couple of page themes that stuck out for me. One, where she says the soldiers in Kuwait never complained. She writes this in a book saturated with her childish complaints about everybody that misunderstood her. Yes, Sarah, there are people who risk, and sacrifice, and give, and NEVER complain.
Another point: “Snuck in the back door and used her maiden name”. This was about her amniocentesis appointment? Why sneak in, and why use your maiden name? I thought the (pitbull, tell-that-neanderthal-where-to-go-gal, barracuda) would push open that door proudly and not CARE what people thought. Don’t medical personnel in Alaska have confidentiality laws anyway? Maiden name?
And, the rest of the chapter, uggh. Many references about her legislative days, the blaming, her gloating. This isn’t a memoir. This is a vendetta. Most people who write memoirs will discuss how they would change their behavior today if they knew better, they are insightful, humble, and suggest improving the world, they bring out the best in people, not the worst.
This book, IMO, says whoever wrote it is emotionally disturbed, mentally disturbed, and by it’s inconsistencies with quotes like “Please God, protect him”, where she claims that losing the baby would be the worst thing in the world…….
And, then, hopping on taxis, planes, taxis, planes, cars, passing though every imaginable equipped hospital, medical personnel, a provision from God, and not accepting His provision along that long wild ride. This is inconsistent.
Warning: Wear helmets before reading this book.
79 rebekkah Says: November 19th, 2009 at 10:15 AM
Warning: Wear helmets before reading this book.
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Why bother with the book when AKM gives all the important stuff, plus the funny commentary, for free?
There’s that Willow again, noticing EVERYGTHING ahead of everyone!! She is one whip-smart kid, I tell ya.
So, WIllow is the one who “notices” that her mother is “porking up” at 7 months. ‘Kay, not buying this, I’ve seen pics where Sarah wears jeans at home; don’t try to tell ME that if she were really pregnant, her own children wouldn’t have noticed it WAAAAY before 7 months.
Also, too, remember, again, that Willow is the one SP says in the People interview noticed at the hospital that the baby had DS, and asked why her mother didn’t TELL them.
Oh, and then there was SP trying to say that Willow thought it was ‘unfair’ that rich people should have to give more of their hard-earned money in taxes than poorer people. Yeah, I’m sure that was WIllow’s independent thought.
But beyond these all-knowing alleged sage observations attributed to Willow, I would like to know why dear daughter BRISTOL never saw fit to notice anything about her mother’s alleged expanding waistline? How come BRISTOL is not mentioned in particular as making any observations at the hospital? I suppose if Piper were a few years older, Sarah would have preferred to attribute the statements to her, instead of Willow.
And no, previous commenter, you are certainly NOT the only one who thinks Sarah did not give birth to Trig. I would like to give Sarah the benefit of the doubt on the labor and delivery story she’s told, and assume it’s a lie, because to believe her version, one is almost forced to believe that she intentionally put her baby at risk. The less worse version, then, is that the story is a lie and Trig only became hers once he was adopted.
I’m not so sure about the whole Track timeline either. There’s been a study recently in teh news about the percentage of people who, upon genetic testing, are proven NOT to have the father their mothers told them they had. I think it was an astonishingly high percentage.
In old Roman days, there was a famous woman (name escaped me) known for her many affairs outside her marriage, and people were astonished that her children all looked like their official father. When questioned about it, she said that she never took a lover unless she was already pregnant by her husband. Well, that’s ONE way to avoid that problem!!
What other political figure writes a book and uses unkind nicknames for people? Real Klassy.
<She did an interview and photo shoot for Vogue. All she wanted to talk about was national security and energy independence because “fashion trends” didn’t interest her.
So why’d she do the interview? I think if I wanted to emphasize my credibility in the field of national security and energy independence, I’d turn down a Vogue interview.
What a boring life. Other than the campaign for 2 months, what has she ever done that’s actually interesting, exciting, or helpful? And for all her raving, she really doesn’t seem to be all that into her family. Me thinks she doth protest too much.
Lessee. 45 years X 12 months in a year = 540 months. 2/540= 1/270 = about .0025 or .25% So, if the 2 month on the campaign trail were the only really interesting times in her life, that means that 99.75% of her life has been boring, which equates with the book’s tone. No wonder she wants to retain the spotlight and try to reinvent those campaign days.
Or perhaps she’s just not mentioning anything truly interesting that’s happened to her!
I feel sorry for her. No one seems to really care for her (though there seems to be reasons for this) and she doesn’t seem to have the skills to make her life any better. That’s sad.
This “stuff” is pretty hard to take………as Colbert said last night, at the end of he segment on Palin and her “book” (he used it to hide his stash of waffles) “it’s a steaming pile of $hit”
AKM, I thank you again….GREAT piece you did at TPM……….I don’t know how you’re surviving this………there must be a trophy at least at the end of this for you.
The following has made me feel better, so I though I would share the reality with everyone else:
Contrary to media hype, Sarah Palin is very unpopular
As political phenomenons go, Sarah Palin is a remarkably unpopular one.
Not that you’d know it from much of the week’s media coverage, but the American public as a whole really doesn’t care for her:
A CBS poll conducted this month found that only 23 percent have a favorable opinion of Palin; 38 percent have an unfavorable view.
Only one in four Americans wants her to run for president; two out of three don’t.
One in four thinks she has the ability to be an effective president; more than 60 percent disagree.
Only 43 percent of Republicans think she could be effective.
An ABC poll, also conducted this month, found similar results: 43 percent have a favorable impression of Palin, 52 percent unfavorable.
A whopping 53 percent of Americans would not even consider voting for her for president, and 60 percent don’t think she’s qualified for the job.
A CNN poll conducted last month found that even more Americans — 71 percent — think Palin is not qualified to be president.
There is, in short, something very close to a national consensus that Sarah Palin should not be president and would not be effective in the job.
That’s the “political phenomenon” that is Sarah Palin: She has pulled off the difficult task of uniting 60 to 70 percent of Americans behind a single political position.
That position happens to be that Palin shouldn’t be anywhere near the Oval Office, but it’s still an impressively large coalition.
That’s a fact that tended to get lost in the media’s efforts to hype the Palin “phenomenon.”
To the contrary: Much of the Palin coverage has suggested exactly the opposite.
Like Andrea Mitchell’s declaration from the Michigan mall: “Here, in the heartland, this is Sarah Palin territory.”
No, it probably isn’t.
http://mediamatters.org/columns/200911190018
Hmm … she told both BW and Oprah that she was irritated by Katie Couric’s question about what she reads because it implied that people in Alaaska were ”Neanderthals,” which was apparently really, really insulting to her. Yet, on page 172, she expresses concerns about the reaction of the ”Neanderthals” (by whom she is apparently surrounded ”up there in Alaska”) to her pregnancy.
AKM, hate to ask you to go back but I’d like the timeline of the pregnancy. Was she flying at 9 mos or was Trig early? Either way, it shows poor her judgement if she was truly concerned about the welfare of the baby. I think she has opened a can of worms….what mom, much less one who’s already given birth to 4 kids, who would get on a plane after her water broke? Did she ask the airline for any assistance like a wheelchair? And, what doctor would not tell her to at least see a local doctor to check on the baby’s status?
Trig was 5 weeks early, I believe. AKM
When I taught Jr. High, we would encourage students to read any thing they wanted. If a boy wanted to read about cars instead of history, at least he would get practice reading. SP’s book may help some people improve their reading skills, especially the people who cannot imagine anyone actually reading a 2000 page document.
I think “Going Rogue” is going to be the seminal moment for the MSM who never bothered to pay attention to SP. The more exposure she has, the more people will see how little is there. This is why we have freedom of speech and press. Knowledge is power.
The Washington Post suggests today the ‘book tour’ was carefully crafted to hit only those areas of the country where she might do better by showing up, rather than by staying home:
The “Going Rogue” tour — by the numbers
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/republican-party/the-palin-book-tour.html
And they also provide a small gossip index of their own:
The D.C. Power Read
A guide to who said what about whom in books from the beltway
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/arts-and-living/book-quotes/power-read/going-rogue/
Her fans will no doubt appreciate this attention to her details.
Ok, What’s on page 203?
You have no commentary, just a “pants on fire” thing
Palin’s story of this pregnancy is as far fetched as anything else in her book. Hard to believe anyone still takes her at her word about it.
Just got back from Walmart (Tri-Cities-where Sarah’s Auntie Katie lives) absolutely the NO Going Rogue on the book shelves, Stephen King and the Wimpy Kid on the Best Sellers end cap, not eeven a spot open for the her book…I was going to check out the pictures, oh well!!
@ Rationalist
The first story to question is the one about her water breaking while she was in texas. If you dismiss that, things make more sense.
$arah dreams of occupying Rahm Emmanuel’s office, efficiently handing out the candy appointments to minions who will fear & owe her bigtime, kinda like the good ol’ days in Alaska. She is lookin’ good in her dream, and she is lording it over other attractive, powerful, professional West Wing types.
How discordant is reality, sitting there for 2+ hours every day signing “books” for a mostly overweight, uninformed, unemployed bunch of retirees? They may be wonderful grandparents, but $P’s Real Americans ain’t the A team. Back on the bus, hon.
*hoist with one’s own petard—to be harmed or disadvantaged by an action of one’s own which was meant to harm someone else. A line in Hamlet: She intended to murder her brother but was hoist with her own petard when she ate the poisoned food intended for him.
or “She intended to destroy the reputation of others with her book, but instead she destroyed her own.”
Should S’error be allowed to pimp her book on military bases, while she attacks the Commander in Chief in the press? Claiming he is jeopardizing soldier’s lives by dithering.
Thanks for doing this.
AKM, you have a tougher constitution than I have and a greater ability to suffer fools than myself. My hat’s off to you.
Re: water breaking. Her dad told a reporter that she told him it did. Palin confirmed it but also claims her doctor told her it was okay to fly, which is impossible. So she’s either lying about the water or lying about the doctor. The million dollar question is why lie about the birth at all?
I scanned the lines of people in MI waiting for the book signing and wasn’t surprised that they too “aren’t interested in Vogue Magazine or fashion”. Mostly, they don’t believe in decent hair, even “acceptable” hair. What a mess of unkempt heads, lots of black-rooted fake blonds, they all looked likes clones of the old woman, just up from a nap – unkempt – telling McCain that “Obama was…uh..ah…uh…mmm..a Muslim”. Quite a batch of big bellied men, and all such blank -faced Americans…everything about them screams “I’m like Sarah Palin…I don’t care!!!”
As I looked closely at the men, they oozed testosterone, kinda antsy-dancin and the not too hidden agendas in their heads was revealing. They really did have their nostrils flared, a la TX Gov Perry, fantasies that their dream girl would look into their eyes…very soon….
It was the cult of the non-personality grinning at the wonder of themselves. Gosh, look at us, we are all here together to see a lying nit-wit…woof woof.
Levi, please spill the beans and put an end to this crazy woman. It is scary how much coverage she receives and her following.
too hidden agendas in their heads was (ooops meant were) revealing.
Since nothing she says has proven to be true, we can only wonder what the real story is about Trig.
Also, her “confession” that she “could have an abortion and nobody would know” says it all right there, the way her mind thinks. (Uh Scarah, wouldn’t your God have known?)
It looks like it’s all about “if I can get away with it, I’ll do it.” So far so good.
I’m beginning to think the book tour – pretending to be about running for President – is only to use the rethuglican followers to gin up publicity and more sales.
She knows she’d never win, but she wants us to keep talking about the possibility, she is gonna milk/milf this for every $$$ she can get while the gettins good.
#12 ML Says:
November 19th, 2009 at 12:17 AM
Am I the only one that doesn’t think that Sarah gave birth to T2?
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NO, absolutely NOT! Not since I first heard the flying from TX with a leak. That’s why I’m still here, waiting for something to bring down this lying liar and the lies she constantly tells.
She says she had four healthy children so she wasn’t worried when she found out she was pregnant at the age of 43. Seriously? Think about that. Surely even Crazy Sarah would have thought, instead, “I’ve had two miscarriages. I’ve lost one of every three babies I’ve conceived and now I’m even older. I’m worried something will be wrong with this baby, too.”
Me, I’m thinking this tells us loud and clear that she never had those two “miscarriages.” Although she certainly could have been pregnant six times.
AKM, you are a saint for reading SP’s drivel and translating for us. thanks
Great Quote from Political Carnival today.
Seem to apply, ya think?
“Oh it’s a crap overload day!!! I haven’t heard anything of substance on any of the channels for hours. Need bullshit filtering ear muffs.”
She has thrown so many people under the bus, even her doctor with Trig. I guess in the book she keeps calling her doctor when in TX & makes it sound like is ok with the doc for her to fly back to AK after her water broke. No doctor is their right mind would say that. I’m hoping the doctor will come forward to redeem herself.
The only truth this book reveals about Sarah is that her core is evil and rotten. She can mention God a zillion times and it still won’t make her saintly.
You really deserve a medal for reading her crap.
31 overthemoon Says:
November 19th, 2009 at 4:47 AM
Wait. She and Rick Perry joked about people clinging to guns and money. When did Obama say that? Maybe I’m wrong, but wasn’t it months later???
That was last year either early in the campaign or just prior to the convention.
I have to admit it was a really bad choice of phrases to address the needs of rural and brown belt Americans.
52 Rainkiss Says:
November 19th, 2009 at 7:39 AM
“Something with real accomplishments she can be proud of… Something showing experience at something other than campaigning?
Is it just me?”
Well she showed her new knowledge today, you can tell she has been studing hard. She know’s the president of Iraq and the percent of Iraq’s oil imports.
Asked about Iran’s nuclear capacity and Holocost denial, Sarah talked about sanctions on Iraq.
Oops.
Sarah: Don’t ya think it is a “mortal sin” to have sex and get pregnant at an advanced age when you know the baby you conceive has a high chance of being un-healthy?
Bleah…
I do not care about SP’s kids in relation to SP herself except to feel deeply sorry for them. I do think ,IF her wild-ride story is even half way true , she showed almost criminally poor judgement.
That poor judgement in relation to state business became more and more obvious as time went on as we all saw.
While her God may forgive her anything I don’t.
( though that stupid letter by-God might get her more than pants-on-fire…)
If she were a middle aged guy with a potgut and thinning grey hair … we would have managed to nail her in the beginning… at Troopergate.
Period.
Any folks from Outside ask me about the blathering bimbo I tell em to cover her pic with any example of the description above and list her actions from 1st budget slashing Troopergate forward…
and most of em become disguted…
Imagine that…
“Decided to get amniocentesis so she could be prepared in case. Went to genetecist alone. Snuck in the back door and used her maiden name.”
Probably did not get away with lying about her name. Even in a small town where everybody knows pretty much everybody phisicians and hospitals require a photo id when filling out paper for a new patient, and usually will xerox or scan the id to have in the record. Among other things it helps to have a photo id to avoid insurance fraud. (Like me allowing a friend to use my name so they are under my insurance. ‘Course it messes up my medical record if I do that, and I can go to jail.)
Unless, Sarah was not a new patient and had seen the prenatal geneticist under her maiden name on a previous visit.
Which ever way it went she just admitted to a lie. And proved she is a sneak.
Palin said she drove herself to a “geneticist” for her amniocentesis. As I recall it is very dangerous for a woman to drive herself after having amnio because of possible miscarriage and other complications. It seems that the closest clinic to Palin would have been in Anchorage–a hefty drive away from Wasilla.
and I wonder if they keep records on their procedures.
AKM, thank you so much for crawling through this book and living to tell about it. With humor, too.
Seems she left out the part about Track joining the military instead of going to jail—something to do with slashed school bus tires?
The birth story is so bizarre to me. I don’t get how someone can have their water break at 5 weeks premature, claim to be so concerned for the welfare of her baby but then INSIST on giving her speech HOURS later.
My understanding is that once the water breaks, you have exactly 24 hours until that kid has to come out. With it occuring five weeks premature with a high risk baby it’s even more imperative to seek medical attention. The mothers will often be given steroid shots to help mature the lungs faster before they are born. It absolutely boggles the mind that any medical professional would tell her that it was fine to wait to give her speech (what 10 hours later) then board a plane to travel several thousand miles. I simply don’t believe it. Either Sarah went AMA and did so to risk the life of her child at the expense of her career OR her pregnancy was total BS.
Either way this little pregnancy story makes her look very bad.
When she quotes with shock and disgust the statistic that 90 percent of women terminate their pregnancies after a positive result from amnio, she’s got it backwards. The only reason for having the test is that for the option of terminating your pregnancy if the fetus has Down syndrome or spinal bifida. So in reality, one hundred percent of the women who undergo amnio (including SP) go in expecting to have an abortion if the results are bad and ten percent end up changing their minds.
Pro-life women don’t have the test. I’ve known several who said their doctors offered it and they said no. They didn’t want to risk a miscarriage and they all said they’d love whatever they got.
I also can’t help wondering if she’d gotten a negative result from the amnio, would disappointing Rick Perry and having a child born outside of Alaska be as important?
Any day now, I am expecting to hear that Sarah Palin’s name isn’t really Sarah Palin.